Seeking Resume Feedback and Job Leads: Can You Help Me Improve and Connect?

Dear seniors, I have attached my resume. If you find any mistakes, please let me know and also provide guidance on what I should add to it. If there are any vacancies that match my resume, please inform me.

Thank you.

Dear Akkaiyaraj, I have read your resume, and here are my suggestions:

1. I had to read it twice and still can't figure out what industry or domain you work in. So, that has to be made clear right at the beginning. Perhaps you can insert it with your career objective.

2. Never assume that all recruiters know what the abbreviations in your education table mean. So, while you can leave them there, expand the not-so-readily-known ones (such as BCA).

3. Specify your MBA specialization.

4. Where you say 'PROJECTS', is that correct, or is that work you've done? If it is work, then change the title to something like 'PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE' or 'MY CAREER TO DATE.'

5. In the 'Duration' space, also include the start and end time (e.g., 4 months - August 1999 to November 1999, etc.).

6. Remember to place your most recent work at the top and move to the next one, next one, and so on and so forth.

7. 'Title' is not for you to insert a miniature job description. This is where you write your job title/designation and nothing else.

8. If you want to insert what your role involved, then create another label like 'BRIEF DESCRIPTION' especially for it.

9. In extracurricular activities, you write AMFI. What is AMFI? Are most people supposed to know what it means? No! So, write the expanded form. The same goes for CANDEO.

I hope this helps.

Good Luck!

Dear senior, I have been working in a corporation for the last 8 to 9 months, and I am looking to change my job. Could you please review my resume?

Thanks,
Kavita Bargali

Thank you very much for your kind reply and suggestions. This will be very useful to me. I am a fresher with 3 months of experience at Scope International, but I don't have a certificate for that. After updating my resume with the help of your suggestions, I will paste it on the site again.

Regards,

I have read your resume and here is my feedback:

1. It is a very well-laid-out and written resume.

2. Reading it, one gets the feeling that it hasn't been written entirely by one person. What I mean by that is there is a considerable variation in the quality of the English language, especially on page 2 where you talk about your project with Britannia. The quality and construction of that section are markedly different from the remainder.

3. In your PROFILE section (pg 1), you talk about Competencies. Yet, nowhere in the document do you substantiate or even mention those competencies.

4. The items you include under Core Competencies (pg 1) are not core competencies at all. Instead, they are functional areas or work types. Competencies mean Decision Making, Communication, Leadership, Team Building, etc.

5. In your PROFILE section (pg 1), you write "demonstrated professional competencies in managing various HR functions." I won't repeat what I've already written about competencies in point 4 above. However, by using the word "managing," you create a false assumption with the reader. You are a Trainee Executive. You are a long way from demonstrating competencies in "managing" HR functions.

6. So, my suggestion as a remedy to point 5 is to use the phrase "demonstrated professional knowledge and skills in various HR functions."

7. Your WINTER PROJECT description is very loose and totally unimpressive. You say, "The project presented an overview of the strategies being used by the organisation at a corporate level as well as at the business level." Well, you've just described one of the key deliverables of ITC's senior leadership from the Board of Directors right down to their General Managers. Because that's what they do all day! So, what is the value that your project brought? Or, did you just create a document summarising their strategies at different levels into a single point of reference? If yes, then say so. If no, then go back to your project brief and see what its mission statement or purpose statement says in its scope document. That is what you will need to include here.

Other than what I've mentioned above, it looks good.

Good luck!

Attached herewith is your updated resume. 

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I have corrected the spelling and grammar errors in the user's input and added a line break before the corrected sentence for improved readability.

Regards